Need a new webhost, any suggestions?

[trparky]

I need to get away from my webhost, they pretty much suck. Any suggestions? I'm not looking for anything expensive, less than $20 a month.

 

[igormp]

How good are you with development in general? Because if all you serve is a static website, you could just use something like cloudflare or github pages for free hosting with your own domain.

Could you provide more details on what you're currently hosting?

 

[qxp]

Try https://www.digitalocean.com/

 

[trparky]

Try https://www.digitalocean.com/

I really don't want to be responsible for maintaining the security and the software of the server. I know just enough about Linux to be dangerous.

How good are you with development in general? Because if all you serve is a static website, you could just use something like cloudflare or github pages for free hosting with your own domain.

Could you provide more details on what you're currently hosting?

I use Wordpress as the basis for my little web site.

 

[PsyGab]

You could try Hetzner https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/

 

[silentbogo]

I really don't want to be responsible for maintaining the security and the software of the server. I know just enough about Linux to be dangerous.

You don't have to. You can either set up a pre-made droplet with PMA+wordpress on digital ocean, or get hosting from cloudways.com (that's digital ocean's cloud hosting).
An entry level VM is $11/mo and it's more than enough for low-traffic websites.
Back in a day I used to run my WP website on their cheapest droplet with 1 vCore and 512MB RAM, and after some tweaking it worked flawlessly. The only time I had overload, is when I published something on Instructables and it got popped to the front page, serving nearly 4000 new sessions on my homepage in one day. But that was rather an exception.

Shared webhosting kinda sucks, but still fine for something like a personal page.
What's your current host?

 

[trparky]

What's your current host?

Namecheap. The server I'm on is way overloaded and even with Cloudflare in front of it, my site can be slow as hell.

 

[leeamtheone]

I knew a few people who used Namecheap, and all of them switched to another webhost. Which one did you choose eventually, how does it work for you? Your site being slow can happen for a number of reasons, so I wanted to suggest this tool I'm using, Prerender. (My PageSpeed Insights scores saw quite a decent improvement) Basically, it renders pages into static HTML and serves those to crawlers, and users get the full dynamic version. Since you said it's a small website, a free plan will do for you. Thought it might be a nice addition.

 

[trparky]

I’m still looking. Any suggestions?

I’ve already moved my domain name registrations over to Cloudflare because damn, they’re cheap.

 

[remixedcat]

Namecheap. The server I'm on is way overloaded and even with Cloudflare in front of it, my site can be slow as hell.

post your AWSTATS bw stats here. You may wanna firewall some bad IPs on the cloudflare side of things. Or put the "I'm under attack" thing on for a while if you are getting flooded.

 

[trparky]

post your AWSTATS bw stats here. You may wanna firewall some bad IPs on the cloudflare side of things. Or put the "I'm under attack" thing on for a while if you are getting flooded.

In my research I've come to find out that Namecheap severely oversells their servers. There's not a time when UNIX load averages are below 20.

 

[remixedcat]

In my research I've come to find out that Namecheap severely oversells their servers. There's not a time when UNIX load averages are below 20.

20?! Holy fek. The most I had was 10 on my current namecheap server an I thought that was insane.

The absolute largest number I've seen when I was beta testing for cpanel was 45 with some decent load testing software